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‘Black fungus’ infections robbing India’s COVID-19 survivors of sight
Fox News ^ | 07/02/2021 | Alexandria Hein, Fox News

Posted on 07/02/2021 10:47:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Thousands of COVID-19 patients in India have been diagnosed with mucormycosis, or so-called “black fungus” that’s leaving some with vision loss. The rare but serious fungal infection is caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes, which live throughout the environment and typically do not agitate otherwise healthy people, but can be problematic in those who have health issues or take medications that lower the body’s ability to fight off germs and sickness.

In India, a health care system overwhelmed by recent coronavirus surges and short medical supplies may be contributing to the spread, as may attempts to treat COVID-19 with steroids in patients with undetected or uncontrolled diabetes.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: black; covid; fungus; india
Black fungus? Fauci will label that as racist!
1 posted on 07/02/2021 10:47:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You don’t die from the virus, you die from the secondary bacterial infections.

Dollars to donuts these people were not treated with Ivermectin or HCQ.


2 posted on 07/02/2021 10:50:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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One would think Indians that live like this would NOT get fungal infections.

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3 posted on 07/02/2021 10:53:54 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
take medications that lower the body’s ability to fight off germs and sickness.

Is the suggestion here that, if you get COVID, they give you medicine which WEAKENS your immune system?

4 posted on 07/02/2021 11:25:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Responsibility2nd

Normally living a high percentage of their lives outside in the sunshine, they don’t, except in the areas with continual high humidity and high temperatures.

However, what happens when you a population when you keep them inside during a lockdown and force them to wear masks when they leave their homes?


5 posted on 07/02/2021 11:37:09 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus
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HCQ is mainly an immunosuppresssant. It has anti-parisitical properties and anti-viral to some extent.
6 posted on 07/02/2021 12:41:28 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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